New Orleans Water Meter Tiles

Replica water meter covers in plastic available at Fig Street Studio, also ornaments, buttons, magnets, and postcards.

New Orleans famous water meter cover used as art on posters, clocks, ceramic tiles, murals, shirts,cards, invitations designed in New Orleans by local artist JK Schwehm of Fig Street Studio. Here is a link to many different products with the water meter cover- http://www.zazzle.com/figstreetstudio/meter+gifts?pg=5#products

Large New Orleans Water Meter Cover Clocks are also available-http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio.435759905

The famous New Orleans water meter cover on ceramic tiles and vinyl stickers. A large ceramic tile mural can be used as table top or kitchen backsplash. See Fig Street Studio store at Cafe Press. Water Meter Cover on tiles, shirts and more.

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We can create a large Water Meter Tile Mural out of ceramic tiles for a small table top or you can use a few vinyl stickers to create a table top you seal in varnish. E-mail with questions about the many tile murals we make at Fig Street Studio.

Click on links or image for the many water meter cover gifts.

See all the tiles here- http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio/397643

And Water Meter Cover Shirts here-

New Orleans Water Meter Cover by figstreetstudio
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New Orleans Water Meter Cover Replica by figstreetstudio
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Red and Blue NOLa Water Meter by figstreetstudio
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New Orleans Water Meter by figstreetstudio
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French Quarter Street Name Blue Letter Tiles and other Street Signs

Sold on the web for the past 8 years, replica blue letter street name tile, letters and numbers several designs see them and other street signs at http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio/434932

Art Tiles, magnets, stickers with the individual letters and the big tile murals found in the French Quarter, black and white metal signs on old lamp posts, and the Spanish Tile Murals. All these have become icons for tourists visiting New Orleans. We have used these icons with others like the water meter cover to make art. See the links here to view them.

New Orleans has several ways it signs the streets. The famous Blue Letter Street Tiles set in the sidewalk are duplicated below seem to be the favorite.

For the history of these replica tiles and the original tiles read: http://blogofbingo.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-orleans-street-tiles.html

Ceramic measuring 4.25” x 4.25” and 1/6-inch thick. Images are applied with a polyester resin that accepts dye as part of the coating and heat set onto the ceramic. Blue Letter Tiles Link

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Spanish Tile Street Name Mural Replicas

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Quote about the tiles in New York Times-
"One of the most effective methods of designating streets that I have seen is that used in New Orleans. It consists of blue tiles four by six inches and three-quarter inch thick on each of which is a five-inch letter of the alphabet in white. . . . These not only present a neat appearance, but are large enough to be read without difficulty. -- Albert E. Davis of the Bronx, N.Y., in a Dec. 3, 1913, in a letter to the editor of The New York Times."

French Quarter Street Name Spanish Tile Murals are different from the French Quarter Blue Letter tiles and the metal street signs. All 3 designs are different icons of the French Quarter. All 3 designs of the street signs are duplicated in my shop.

Make your own New Orleans street sign. Edit or add text, your name, address whatever to both postcard size or vinyal stickers see my Zazzle shop, click images. Great to use for table signbs at parties.

Street Sign Blank, Add Name, Rue Name by figstreetstudio
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Bourbon Street Sign by figstreetstudio
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Street Sign Blank, Add Name, Rue Name by figstreetstudio
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New Orleans Street Tiles

I often get contacted about the New Orleans Street Tiles because I use the design elements in some art and some T-shirts. I also have made some similar ceramic tiles based on the orginals I sell on the web that can be used decoratively. A lot of people want the original tiles so they can spell out their names with them in their home. Several artists do stylized paintings and signs mostly out of hardboard and acrylic. My ceramic tiles are made with a heat transfer process and are suitable for decorative purposes. The orginal old tiles used for street names are very durable. They are called 'Encaustic tiles'. Encaustic tiles are unglazed, the design is not painted on with dyes or minerals, but dry or dust pressed from clays. Most ceramic tiles are surface decorated by painting or embossed designs created by a mold. Encaustic tiles are stronger in that their designs are inlaid and baked in the tile. The original tile company, believed to be The American Encaustic Tile Company of Ohio and New York was in operation from 1875 until 1935, closing with the depression. Several art tile companies do make decorative tiles now and a local ceramic shop hand paints letters on tile blanks the size of the originals and fires them. Most are not encaustic tiles but painted ceramic tiles that do not wear as long. There is a Spanish company that still makes similar blue lettered tiles but I do not know what company imports them now.

Victoria, B.C. also has tiles on the sidewalks but reverse colors, white letters with blue backgrounds made for them by the same tile company. They still have a few in stock but also ask contractors to save the tiles when work is done. They too have different leads in trying to get duplicates and say craftsmen now charge up to $100 for one duplicate tile. The process is time consuming and for just one tile it is costly. France still has homes with tile floors made in the same manner that look as good as new. I have replica tiles made from a heat transfer methodand the big street name tile murals can add in your name to personalize them to at extra costs.
Here is a link to the New Orleans Street tile designs I sell on the web: http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio/434932

Blue Letter S Sticker
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New Orleans Toulouse St Tile Mural

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French Number Tile 6 or 9
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French Quarter Street Tile Murals, add text
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Spanish Tile Street Name Mural Replicas

You can have your name or street number made into a vinyl sticker that looks like the famous street tiles and can be put on your mail box.





There are hats, shirts, ceramic tiles, stickers, magnets, and buttons that can be personalized with whatever you want to look like the street tiles. Just ask via e-mail for the details.

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Historical Quote from the New York Times in 1913-
"One of the most effective methods of designating streets that I have seen is that used in New Orleans. It consists of blue tiles four by six inches and three-quarter inch thick on each of which is a five-inch letter of the alphabet in white. . . . These not only present a neat appearance, but are large enough to be read without difficulty. -- Albert E. Davis of the Bronx, N.Y., in a Dec. 3, 1913, in a letter to the editor of The New York Times. "